Great Mill or Ride's Mill is a Grade II listed smock mill just off the High Street in Sheerness, Kent, England, that was demolished in 1924, leaving the...
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Norfolk Great Mill, Sheerness, a windmill in Kent Great Mill, Southwold, a windmill in Suffolk Great Mill, Thorpe le Soken, a windmill in Essex Great Mill, Wickhambrook...
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century, Sheerness acquired the added attractions of a seaside resort. Industry retains its important place in the town and the Port of Sheerness is one...
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Sheerness-on-Sea railway station is on the Sheerness Line in north Kent, England, and serves the town of Sheerness. It is 51 miles 19 chains (82.5 km)...
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Lister Mills (otherwise known as Manningham Mills) was the largest silk factory in the world. It is located in the Manningham district of Bradford, West...
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Sheerness Dockyard was a Royal Navy Dockyard located on the Sheerness peninsula, at the mouth of the River Medway in Kent. It was opened in the 1660s...
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inherited the mill. Around this time, a visitor to the mill describes its operation: "I ascertained some facts relative to the economy of a wind-mill. His sails...
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could be personally lucrative for her owners. In May 1865, Great Eastern steamed to Sheerness to take on wire for the laying of the Transatlantic telegraph...
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passes the town on the west, heading between Maidstone and Sheerness. The preserved former paper mill railway the Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway still...
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Heritage Pavilion, Sheerness; and Hospital Radio Swale which broadcasts from the Sheppey Community Hospital in Minster. The Sheerness Times Guardian is...
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Greenwood & Co Mills in Canterbury Mills in bold are still standing, known building dates are indicated in bold. ^ Coles Finch states that the mill moved from...
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Stocks Mill is a Grade II* listed post mill in Wittersham on the Isle of Oxney, in Kent, England which has been preserved. Probably built around 1781,...
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The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of six million African Americans out of...
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Martin Mill railway station serves the small village of Martin Mill in East Kent, England. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Southeastern...
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Queenborough railway station (category Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1860)
Queenborough railway station is on the Sheerness Line, on the Isle of Sheppey in northern Kent, and serves the town of Queenborough. It is 49 miles 22 chains...
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Bidston Windmill (redirect from Bidston mill)
The mill was ideally placed to catch the wind and was able to produce over 100 pounds (45 kg) of flour every 3 to 5 minutes. However, the mill was difficult...
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Kemsley railway station (category Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1927)
Kemsley railway station is on the Sheerness Line in north Kent, England, and serves the village of Kemsley. It is 45 miles 20 chains (72.8 km) down the...
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Upminster Windmill (redirect from Abraham's Mill, Upminster)
Grade II* listed smock mill located in Upminster in the London Borough of Havering, England. It was formerly known as Abraham's Mill and was in Essex when...
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Saxtead Green Windmill (redirect from Saxtead Green Post Mill)
Saxtead Green Post Windmill is a Grade II* listed post mill at Saxtead Green, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England which is also a Scheduled monument and has been...
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Pencester, a windmill was erected on Tower 22, which was later known as the Mill Tower. By the Tudor age, the defences themselves had been superseded by gunpowder...
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Ravenscraig steelworks (category Rolling mills)
the capacity for producing strip steel and tin plate, the first strip mill in Great Britain having been opened at Ebbw Vale in the late 1930s. A major expansion...
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FM 92.2. The Sheerness Times Guardian is the local weekly newspaper. Trains pass through Queenborough railway station on the Sheerness line between Sittingbourne...
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Sittingbourne railway station (category Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1858)
Sittingbourne railway station is on the Chatham Main Line and the Sheerness Line in north Kent. It is 44 miles 59 chains (72.0 km) down the line from...
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Tutelina Mill, also known as Clarke's Mill, is a Grade II listed tower mill at Great Welnetham, Suffolk, England which has been conserved. Tutelina Mill was...
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from the first seven series of the British television series All Creatures Great and Small. Dates shown are original broadcast dates on BBC One. The core...
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television producer Peter Bazalgette, the great-great-grandson of Joseph. As at 2015 part of the Abbey Mill facility continues to operate as a sewage...
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Great River Bluffs State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, on the Mississippi River southeast of Winona. Originally known as O. L. Kipp...
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Cobstone Windmill (redirect from Cobstone Mill)
Cobstone Mill was built around 1816 on Turville Hill in Buckinghamshire, England, and overlooks the village of Turville. It is a smock mill that replaced...
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timber-framed and weatherboarded mill house, and the nearby grain store, date from the 18th century and are Grade II listed. Sheering Mill Lock is to the east, where...
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Hogg Hill Mill is a post mill at Icklesham in East Sussex, England. It houses the private recording studio of Paul McCartney. Hogg Hill Mill was built...
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